The irrational aggressiveness of the Axis powers teaches us not to expect our enemies to be reasonable. Seventy-five years ago, the world blew up in just six months. World War II ostensibly ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...

All 11 crewmen aboard the Heaven Can Wait bomber perished in March 1944. A pilot who died on board has been found 80 years ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure ...

But with bombers, battleships, and armored tanks, why were mules and other beasts of burden part of the fight against the Axis powers in World War II? The production’s historian, Dr. Mark ...

A dark alternate history where the Axis powers won WWII, with mysterious films hinting at a hidden, supernatural truth. A ...

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